Talk:Margarita de Castro e Souza

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[edit] Margarita or Margarida?

"Margarita" is not the usual spelling, "Margarida" is — at least currently, I'mm not sure about the 1400ies . Is there any evidence for this spelling, or is this inferred from the cognate and etym forms (English "Margaret", and Italian, Russian etc. "Margarita")? Shoudl the page be renamed? 62.48.171.17 14:58, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sephardic Jewish Ancestry?

What about the possibility of this family/person having Sephardic Jewish ancestry? There were MANY Sephardic Jews in Spain/Portugal (hundreds of thousands of them), but many of them were driven out of the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions (those that did not want to be expelled would face the death penalty, or they could convert to Catholicism and become "New Christians," or "marranos"/"conversos"). However, before they were expelled from both countries (from Spain in 1492; Portugal in 1497) these Jews often intermarried to some extent with the royalty and upper-classes of those countries, and thus some lingered on in those countries a bit even after the vast bulk had been expelled (many remain even today). So possibly this person/family had some Sephardic Jewish ancestry? Please note that these Sephardic Jews are different from the Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews. --172.144.52.244 06:12, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, Aloandro Ben Bekar was partially of Sephardic origin, so Margarita de Castro e Souza also had that in her genealogy. Notice however that, contrary to what you said, it was not often that jews "intermarried to some extent with the royalty and upper-classes of those countries, and thus some lingered on in those countries a bit even after the vast bulk had been expelled (many remain even today)". The Ogre 13:57, 31 March 2007 (UTC)